Phelon, W P
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1834-1904) UK-born author, in the US from early manhood, who focused on occult themes, most of his fiction being Occult Fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] and not listed here; Three Sevens: A Story of Ancient Initiations (1889) with Mira M Phelon is an occult treatise in fictional form. Of some sf interest is Our Story of Atlantis: Written Down for the Hermetic Brotherhood (1903), in which a manuscript, discovered on an Island in the West Indies where the now-sunken continent of Atlantis once flourished, recounts the history of that high civilization in Utopian terms consistent with the tenets of Theosophy, about which he wrote extensively. He was a prominent early member of the American section of the Theosophical Society, and Founder of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis, Luxor and Elphantae; in 1892 he urged L Frank Baum to join the Order. [JC/MA]
William P Phelon, M D
born England: 28 September 1834
died San Francisco, California: 29 December 1904
works (highly selected)
- Three Sevens: A Story of Ancient Initiations (Chicago, Illinois: Hermetic Publishing Company, 1889) with Mira M Phelon [hb/]
- Our Story of Atlantis: Written Down for the Hermetic Brotherhood (San Francisco, California: Hermetic Book Concern, 1903) [hb/]
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